William Blake

Question 1

tough, fibrous tissue

Answer 1

sinew

Question 2

an archaic form of do

Answer 2

dost

Question 3

valley

Answer 3

vale

Question 4

meadow

Answer 4

mead

Question 5

the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other; regularity; uniformity

Answer 5

symmetry

Question 6

gentle; humble

Answer 6

meek

Question 7

quickly detached

Answer 7

plucked

Question 8

rustic

Answer 8

rural

Question 9

happiness; joy

Answer 9

glee

Question 10

a large, heavy block of steel or iron with a flat top on which metals pounded into shape with a hammer

Answer 10

anvil

Question 11

“Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

Answer 11

symbolism in “The Tyger”

Question 12

a shepherd

Answer 12

whom Blake envisions himself to be in “Piping Down the Valleys Wild”

Question 13

“In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?”

Answer 13

where the Creator might have created the Tyger

Question 14

whom the speaker addresses

Answer 14

a lamb

Question 15

“And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?”
“What dread hand?”

Answer 15

how the Creator could have created the Tyger

Question 16

piping of songs in a wild valley; a laughing child on a cloud speaking

Answer 16

stanza 1 imagery in “Piping Down …”

Question 17

serves as a muse for Blake’s poetry, his “songs of innocence.”

Answer 17

a child

Question 18

What kind of immortal power could create such a creature?

Answer 18

the main rhetorical question Blake asks in “The Tyger”

Question 19

“For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild,
He became a little child.”

Answer 19

Jesus Christ

Question 20

“What the hammer? What the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?”

Answer 20

Blacksmith imagery